Finkin’ for Funds Start small and work your way up… Becoming a bounty hunter may soon get a lot easier. “Bounty Hunter” — oooooo! A dangerous and glamorous occupation to pursue! SpotSquad is a mobile phone application in the works that allows users to report illegally parked cars and get a cut of the fine [...]
where’s our Oil Pipeline and $$gazillionz of minerals? U.S. and Taliban representatives will meet soon for the first time to begin what are expected to be long and complex negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday. Whaaaa!!??!?!??!?!! …the meeting will take place in the next several [...]
Cleaning off the desk… I do a lot of *clicky*clicky* and save-to-read, then getting interrupted and wandering off. Then I find it later and have no idea whence it came. So I owe *someone* a . Consider this idea: It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of [...]
WTF??!?!?! Slick Willie Clinton during an event for the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Manhattan Tuesday night: [The event was closed to the press, but POLITICO listened to audio of portions of it recorded by an attendee.] “Some people say, ‘Okay, see what a big mess it is? Stay out!’ I think that’s a [...]
…and on and on and on… Competence! Booz Allen can confirm that Edward Snowden, 29, was an employee of our firm for less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii. Snowden, who had a salary at the rate of $122,000, was terminated June 10, 2013 for violations of the firm’s code of ethics [...]
…the timing? Anyone remember this? [ WIRED.COM :: by JAMES BAMFORD 03.15.12 7:24 PM] Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency… Bluffdale UT… A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast [...]
“…I don’t want the whole day to just be a bleeding press conference…” That’s what Teh iWon said at his San Jose CA …erm, Press Conference… Now, let — let me take the two issues separately. When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program’s about. [...]
“If you’re not an Enemy of Teh State, you have nothing to worry about.” *waves to the boyz n gurlz at Ft Meade* has long, loooong been an email [and before that, land line fone] joke among a certain circle of my friends. duh. [Not that I'm against a National Discussion of this subject. But... [...]
business as usual… The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator [Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello)] and the Legislature’s Latino caucus on Tuesday… a sealed federal search warrant … [...6 hours ...20 agents] [Calderon's] spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. “I have a [...]
my job lacks a certain …something OUR money…. A warehouse maintained by contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency contained secret rooms full of exercise equipment, televisions and couches, according to an internal audit. EPA’s inspector general found contractors used partitions, screens and piled up boxes to hide the rooms from security cameras in the 70,000 [...]
Brotherhood During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama’s reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization. “On election night he was in our boiler room in Chicago,” says David Plouffe The [...]
rewards The IRS spent close to $50 million on 225 conferences between 2010 and 2012… Puropse …continuing professional education …credits were not given to attendees, …no sign-in sheets… Several IRS employees stayed in presidential suites at hotels, … currently cost between $1,500 to $3,500 per night. …Fifteen outside speakers … totaling $135,000, … One … [...]
where’s ye crayon? A new study [USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration] finds one in ten Los Angeles County residents is an immigrant living in the country illegally. whaaa??? …roughly seven percent of California’s population, or over two-point-six-million people, is made up of illegal immigrants. 2,600,000 “House by house, block by block, job [...]
cold… dead… hands [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] regulators are eager to promote research on self-driving cars, which they said have the potential to reduce highway accidents and deaths, and to curb fossil-fuel emissions. I peripherally heard this discussed on the raadio while making coffee this am. What caught my attention was the sudden [...]
goal? Why would Attorney General Eric Holder want to hold an off-the-record meeting with the press?
send $$$$$$ NOW!!! Two letters that contained threats to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg — one addressed to him, the other to a lobbyist who works on his gun control campaign [Mark Glaze, the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group Mr. Bloomberg helps run and finances]— have tested positive for the deadly poison ricin [...]
nice… Teh Leader of the Free World [funny, we don't hear that phrase much any more...] kickin’ it Jersey Shore style: erm… just an odd camera angle… nothing to see… “I think a friend of mine once put it pretty well — down the shore, everything’s alright,”… “He’s the only guy the President still has [...]
from Politico The Obama administration won’t answer the CBS News correspondent’s questions because her investigations — into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra — often reflect negatively on it. … And now, she says, someone may have hacked into her computers. “She doesn’t get much love here,” one CBS News source told POLITICO. “Part of that [...]
Preference Cascade? Or the scrabble of tiny rat claws running off the sinking ship? Leonard Downie Jr. is a vice president at large of The Washington Post, where he served as executive editor from 1991 to 2008. … …the Obama administration’s steadily escalating war on leaks, the most militant I have seen since the Nixon [...]
and we don’t even grow bananas … selling post office buildings is part of the Postal Service plan to save $20 billion over the next three years. More than 600 buildings have been “earmarked for disposal” nationwide, at a savings of $2.1 billion, according to the Postal Service’s 2012 report to Congress. …include Sausalito’s main [...]
